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Ink drawing by a US soldier of an officer offering food to a thin woman with a Star of David badge

Object | Accession Number: 2002.108.1

Date: creation: 1945 April
Geography: depiction: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
Language: English
Classification: Art
Category: Drawings
Object Type: Ink drawings (tgm)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Byrnice Dunn

Physical Description: The drawing depicts in black and colored ink a military officer kneeling on the ground next to a thin woman wearing a Star of David and feeding her. The caption on the back of the drawing reads: "Original pen and ink drawing from a sketch I made in Germany, April 1945 (Buchenwald Concentration Camp) CPL Frank E. Kennelly, Phila, PA, 1992- 1260th Combat Engs."
Dimensions: overall: Height: 12.880 inches (32.715 cm) | Width: 13.880 inches (35.255 cm)
Contributor: Artist: Frank E. Kennelly
Topical Term: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
Soldiers--United States--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002 by Byrnice Dunn.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2021-02-10 09:15:27
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn519946

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